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The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was created to promote a more complete and comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease and related illnesses through research, education and advocacy to help reduce misdiagnosis and improve treatments for Lyme disease.
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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Get the facts on ticks and tick-borne diseases. There are many myths!
Recent dispatches
Commentary: Diagnosis, treatment of Lyme Disease controversial
May 24, 2015 12:15 am By Prof. Holly Ahern The recent letter to the editor by Lauren Meilhede, M.D.…
Fellow Lyme disease sufferer bakes up help for Paige
BY SUE-ANN LEVY, TORONTO SUN May 26, 2015 TORONTO – I heard from Veronique Ayling first thing on the Sunday morning…
From urine therapy to vitamins: study warns of untested Lyme disease ‘cures’
[CanLyme note: What is not addressed in this article below is that if patients were being properly handled within the…
Australia ticked off by Lyme disease
May 23, 2015 Sufferers are still fighting to have Lyme disease, contracted from ticks, recognised in Australia. In…
Where there are ticks, there’s often Lyme disease
Lyme disease is caused by an infection that is most often transmitted by ticks, but it can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
Ticks can attach to your body without being seen or felt, and diagnosis can be difficult due to symptom presentation, testing protocols and other challenges.
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More news
Tick-Borne Disease: A Public Health Crisis (Senators, Patients and Physicians speak)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, TBDA and Weill Cornell Medical College Host NYC Forum on Silent Epidemic of…
A simple method for the detection of live Borrelia spirochaetes in human blood using classical microscopy techniques
Abstract We have developed a simple method for the detection of live spirochaete stages in blood of patients where…
The Many Faces of Solitary and Multiple Erythema Migrans
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1549 Abstract: Case definitions for European Lyme disease have been published. However, multiple erythema migrans may pose a…
Virginia passes law forcing physicians to disclose the limitations of tests
Va. now must disclose the flaws in Lyme disease testing Tuesday, February 26, 2013 BY MARKUS SCHMIDT Richmond Times-Dispatch…
State works with patient groups and experts to combat Lyme disease – Massachusetts
A report issued by the Special Commission to Conduct and Investigation of the Incidence and Impacts of Lyme disease…
New tick-borne bacteria found in Shasta County [California]
Black-legged ticks are already notorious bad guys known for spreading Lyme disease. Now the nasty little creatures are making…
Lyme disease treatment stopped suddenly
Patient says her privacy breached An Emerson woman is raising privacy concerns after she said her doctor was ordered…